Recall Register

1997 Buick Riviera: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1997 Buick Riviera. NHTSA has 41 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1997 Buick Riviera. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 41 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

41 complaints, 45 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1997 Buick Riviera: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Steering10
Service Brakes, Hydraulic6
Engine and Engine Cooling6
Electrical System5
Power Train3
Structure3
Fuel System, Other2
Seat Belts2
Vehicle Speed Control1
Service Brakes, Air1

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 16.

Complaints that report a crash
3
Complaints that report a fire
5
Injuries in the complaints
4
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
17 Aug 2009

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 1997 Buick Riviera, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2002, with 6 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1997 Buick Riviera
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA02030Engineering analysisENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRESFuel System, Gasoline / Delivery22 Oct 20029 Mar 200404V090000

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19661
  2. 19690
  3. 19702
  4. 19712
  5. 19723
  6. 19731
  7. 19741
  8. 19753
  9. 19761
  10. 19772
  11. 19781
  12. 19792
  13. 19811
  14. 19821
  15. 19831
  16. 19841
  17. 19851
  18. 19861
  19. 19871
  20. 19880
  21. 19892
  22. 19904
  23. 19911
  24. 19922
  25. 19931
  26. 19951
  27. 19962
  28. 19970
  29. 19980
  30. 19990

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1997 Buick Riviera: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buick/riviera/1997/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Buick Riviera have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 33 recall campaigns for the Buick Riviera, model years 1966 to 1999. None of them names the 1997 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1997 Buick Riviera name most often?
Steering: 10 of 45 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1997 Buick Riviera open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.